In observance of Labor Day, 91心頭利 University will be closed Monday, Sept. 5, and will reopen on Tuesday, Sept. 6.
Have a safe and happy holiday!
Associate Professor Jeanne Marie Stumpf-Carome was awarded the Connie Towson Ford Teaching Fellowship from the Cleveland Museum of Art for the 2018-19 academic year. The Teaching Fellowship begins in July and will continue through the year. The stated goals of the Fellowship are to: Explore methodologies of gallery teaching and object-based learning experiences. Work with colleagues to experiment, innovate, and push the boundaries of gallery-based experiences. Develop an action-based research question or project incorporating an aspect of object-based teaching. Develop a ...
Congratulations to Dr. Richard E. Ferdig, RCET Summit Professor for Learning Technologies, on the release of two new books. Both books are accessible for free download. The Handbook of Research on K-12 Online and Blended Learning is an edited collection of chapters of examining research in K-12 online and blended learning, - where we have been, what we currently know, and future directions for research in multiple areas. Society, Culture, and Technology: Ten Lessons for Educators, Developers, and Digital Scientists engages educators, developers, and digital scientists in appreciating and...
Dr. Eren and colleagues Drs. O'Brien and Buchanan just published a new book on the evolution of stone tool technology. It is available through amazon.com: ...
Congratulations Michelle and Mike! PhD student Michelle Bebber and undergraduate student Michael Wilson received the prestigious Student Paper Award from the Society of American Archaeology (SAA). They were honored at the annual SAA meeting in Washington, D.C. on Friday, April 13, 2018. Bebber and Wilson are members of Dr. Metin Eren's Experimental Archaeology Laboratory. From the announcement at the award ceremony: Michelle Bebber and Mike Wilson's paper "Untapped Potential Why werent ceramic arrowheads invented? Theoretical Morphology for Understanding the Human Past" ...
On May 25th, the President of Kyoto University, Dr. Juichi Yamagiwa, kindly met with KSU Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Anthony Tosi. Dr. Tosi was introduced to the President by Dr. Takakazu Yumoto, Director of the Primate Research Institute (PRI) of Kyoto University, and Dr. Hirohisa Hirai, Professor of Cellular and Molecular Biology at the PRI. In 2015, President Yamagiwa formulated the WINDOW concept as a framework for training Kyoto University students to meet the global challenges of the 21st century. One of the pillars of WINDOW is greater internationalizat...
Dr. Hirohisa Hirai, Professor of Kyoto University and former Director of the Primate Research Institute (PRI), retired at the end of March. In his honor, a two-day symposium on Genome and Cell Biology of Primates was held at the PRI in Inuyama, Japan. Former students from throughout Japan, and long-time collaborators from Indonesia, Korea, Italy, and the United States gave presentations on research stemming from, and developed with, Dr. Hirai. Topics included chromosome evolution, genetic introgression, transposable elements, taste receptor evolution, cognitive genomics, an...
For anyone who has traveled to 91心頭利 over the summer, the Summit Street construction project has been quite an inconvenience for drivers. For Lauren Kinsman-Costello, though, its an opportunity to make the campus more ecologically friendly and establish trends in biology, chemistry, geology and ecology. The assistant professor of biological sciences has been leading a team of student researchers in the study of a wetland area along Summit Street near Campus Center Drive. Kinsman-Costello has been working on the project almost since she came to 91心頭利 in 2014. She said the fo...
The March 3rd hackathon event hosted by the 91心頭利 Student Chapter for American Computing Machinery-Women and the Research Center for Education Technology (RCET) provided a day full of STEAM opportunities for 30 girls from 11 different middle and high schools in Summit, Portage & Tuscarawas counties. The day kicked off with Alicia Robinson, Executive Director and Founder of Limitless Ambition, and Xyla Foxlin, CEO and Founder of Parihug and the YouTube page Beauty and the Bolt, speaking about what inspires them as young women and giving advice to the group about achieving success. G...
Dr. Metin Eren and PhD student Michelle Bebber were featured on Discovery Channel's Daily Planet show Watch the video here (it is the first story of the segment, beginning at ~ the 1 minute mark) ...
